john mccain in 2008 got 31%. mitt romney last tuesday got 27%. a precipitous drop. and i just want to continue on this, just focusing in on a couple of the key battleground states. florida. in 2008, 14% overall the latino vote. in 2012, 17%. romney -- this is very important. 39%. obama 42%. this is the latino vote in the state of florida. colorado, look at that difference. mitt romney, 23%. barack obama, 38%. so republicans are simply not doing well -- what i started to talk about before is the percentage of the latino vote is going up in those states. >> right. as i talked to latinos, the insight that i got was that latinos were scared. you know, it wasn't the economy and -- they were scared of the republican party, and i think fear is what did us in. people were scared of people like todd akin. they were scared of richard mourdock. they were scared of the anti-immigration talk. they were scared of the xenophob xenophobes. it's almost as if we're living in the past. >> you mentioned xenophobes. i just want to mention one thing and i want to let you all speak. you m